Authors Note1: So like I wrote in the mini announcement, sorry for deleting the other chapters but it just didn´t felt right in my AisXBell story. The chapters and story aren´t lost but will appear in the Harem Story again, I will change things in the chapters but the story will have the same outcome to the end, with some things added, because it will be a BellXHaruhime story.
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Orario had times of war and times of peace, some said that war was just the temporary absence of peace, other people said that peace was just the temporary absence of war. That war was something natural for mortals, in the past they had fought for their lives against monsters, then the gods came.
Now people fought against each other again, even in areas where monsters were quite common. In Orario a time of peace came after the wargame between the Loki, Hestia and Freya Familia. A certain white haired young man and a young, blond woman were really happy with each other, both enjoying their love.
It was a complete ordinary morning in Orario...for most people at least.
There was one poor girl in the city who was always a bit afraid of her dreams...dreams she didn´t wanted to have.
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Smoke and dust filled the air, screams echoed everywhere, together with a deep rumble. Stones flew through the air...not natural ones but bricks...enormous bricks. They didn´t flew like they were thrown or launched with a catapult...but as if something shot them.
Rooftops were crushed when the stones hit them, a woman that ran over a street was thrown to the side, blood filled the air and it was clearly visible that she was dead before her body hit the ground.
More and more dust filled the area, the houses on the other side of the street vanished. For a split second, a horned head was visible over a rooftop, before the dust engulfed him.
Something enormous screamed in rage.
And the ground started to shake...
Something came...
Something...
Titanic...
Orario...Babel...were about to fall.
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With a gasp, Cassandra jerked up in her bed and sweated heavily from her prophetic dream, pressing her white rabbit plushy against her chest.
No...no no no no no..please no...not again!
The dream happened to her for weeks now, and everytime she dreamed it again, more details came...more destruction. But Cassandra didn´t saw what exactly would happen...destruction in Orario wasn´t something new.
Ever since the Miach Familia had moved into the Hestia Mansion...well for Cassandra and Daphne it was moving back in, they even got their old rooms back...she had decided to talk more openly.
Daphne still couldn´t believe many things that Cassandra told her, but Bell believed everything that Cassandra told him about her dreams.
"I mean there is no reason for you to lie to me or make these things up, Ms. Cassandra." Bell smiled friendly.
Cassandra really liked Bell, not a feeling of love...but she liked him just for believing her. But she couldn´t give him more information than to watch out, Bell took her advice seriously.
Since he had a better relationship with the Loki Familia now, he knew the perfect person to talk about that.
"And she get these dreams more and more often?" Riveria frowned.
"Yes, Ms. Riveria. Cassandra always had these dreams in the past. While she was still in the Apolon Familia, she even had a short dream about the fortess falling, before we started our attack. Whenever something dire happens, she has these feelings and dreams, but they are not clear so she can´t tell what is about to happen.
I just tell you this so that you can watch our for dangers, it might be a stupid thing to do, since your Familia alsways does this...but I..."
"No, I appreciate your worry, Bell Cranel. Since she dreamed about the destruction of Orario, I will talk to a few people. Having the eyes and ears open can´t hurt...and I know the right people for this job."
She would use contacts with the Hermes Familia, they were specialists in this.
But even when some people had their eyes and ears open...no one was prepared for what would soon happen.
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"Mmmmmmnnh!"
Ais stretched her arms and let her legs dangle. The two sat on the edge of the parapet of one of the towers of Orario, watching the sun rise in the east. The top of the walls were a special spot for Bell and Ais, ever since she started to train him, they held this place dear.
Sometimes they changed locations, visiting other parts of the walls, just for a change of scenery behind them while they fought. Bell had talked to Eina at the guild for a special permission for him and Ais, they were allowed to leave the city any time, since they often ran a round around the city, or two. While a normal date was indeed nice, they just preffered to train with each other, have a nap together, later a snack and train again. They would change the location where they spend the night, one night it was the Heart Mansion, the next it would be the Twillight Mansion. The training...to fight against each other...was more than just training for them. They understood each other so well, that they could fight each other for hours, especially since Bell reached level six. It was more than just moving their bodies together, breaking in a heavy sweat...it was more like...a dance.
A form of communication, one time Lefiya watched how they fought against each other in the morning. She described what she saw as a love dance, like the ones from certain birds in her home forest. Lefiya had accepted that Bell and Ais were a couple and if she was honest, Bell was good for Ais.
And at this morning, they started like most of the days. Both got up early and put their armors on and took their weapons. Both climbed up the stairs to the top of the walls and further to the tower, there they sat down on the edge and watched the slowly rising sun. Sitting together here and just enjoy the morning was nice enough on it´s own, sometimes they sat here at evening and watched the moon.
There was always a backpack with them, so they could wrap a blanket around them or drink tea. Bell was everyday enchanted again by Ais´ beauty, her alluring smile, how the sweat glistened on her skin...she was just pure perfection for him. They even dared to hold hands and kiss from time to time up here...in public!
A small flirting play between them was during their fights, when one of them got the chance they would drive the other into a corner until there was no room for escaping. When Bell did that, Ais fidgeted and blushed on the spot while he leaned closer until they kissed, she really loved the feeling of getting pushed back by him. When Ais did that, she stopped in front of Bell and closed her eyes, waiting. Kissing the other felt always wonderful, even more when their bodies were this hot from training.
And sometimes for the best or for the worst, their friends wanted to help them...especially a certain, flat-chested goddess and a busty amazoness.
Ais´ birthday was four months ago...also their first time, ever since then Riveria had started to call him "Bell Cranel" again. While she accepted that "her little girl" had a boyfriend, she couldn´t forgive him for doing "that" with Ais, for a whole day at their first time, her maternal instincts were very strong and it would take a while for her to accept that the little Ais was a young woman now.
But Loki and Tione had much fun to give Ais suggestions, like special clothes.
There were two events that happened two weeks apart, Bell burned both into his memory. That he slept at the Loki Mansion was nothing new anymore, so one day after he was with his party in the dungeon, he returned and Ais already waited for him in her room.
Bell had knocked softly and after he heard her reply, he entered...and nearly fainted.
Ais stood there in a white apron...and that was all.
"Welcome back Bell...do you want a bath first...have dinner? Or...do...you...want...to have...me?" She glanced to him with puppy eyes.
"A-A-Ais?!"
"Bell?"
"What are you wearing?"
"An apron, you said you would love to see me in one?" She waved the lower part a bit around with her hands, blood shot into Bell´s cheeks when he saw her like this.
"B-But I didn´t meant only an apron!"
"Oh?...Oh...So...you don´t like it?"
"That´s...not what I meant..."
What she had to say when he came back was something that Tione told her. She even told Ais that when she was lucky, Bell would choose to have her as dinner in the bath, Ais didn´t understood what that meant.
And the other event was thanks to Loki...
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Bell had come to the Loki Mansion again and took a long shower at first, after he had dinner with Ais they got ready for sleeping. She had asked him to close his eyes for a few moments until she said it was okay.
When Bell opened his eyes...he really fainted. Ais wore a long, green sweater with not really much cloth. The sides of her upper body and her back were bare, it ended halfway down her thighs...the sight was to die for.
Loki told Ais that this was what she called "Battle Garment" and this one in particular was called "A Virgin Killer", Ais didn´t understood why it worked for Bell so well, but she was happy that he didn´t died.
Later when he woke up, Ais gave him a lap pillow and smiled down to him. When Bell tried to do something in return, it was enough to take his shirt off to let Ais blush fiercly, both were still way too innocent for these "plays", but Ais was also too much of an airhead to understand when she should scold Loki and Tione, thankfully she could ask Riveria about that later, the elf would give the goddess and the amazoness divine punishment with her iron fist for trying to "corrupt" the pure Ais and Bell.
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Hestia tried to get along well with Ais too, she gifted her a sweater too, a normal one. Ais really liked it since autumn was approaching, River smiled when she saw that Ais had received a gift from Bell´s goddess, she was happy that they got along well.
But Riveria nearly spat her tea out when Ais turned around, something was embroidered on the back of the sweater.
"Jaggarmaru-kun for life"
It would become Ais´ favorite sweater, she would always wear it in autumn and winter when she sat at a window, drank tea and ate potato snacks while looking outside. Hestia didn´t meant to tease her with that, she just thought it would be a good idea.
And Ais would love Hestia over the years, since Hestia worked at the potato snack stall, she got her hands on limited goodies. And those which Hestia couldn´t just give Ais, like key chains, won Bell for her due to his immense luck. Ais stole both of their hearts with her shining eyes and child-like joy.
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"Shall we start, Bell?"
"Gladly."
They put the blanket aside and rolled it up, the usual way of training would now go until noon. It was fascinating how Ais´ stomach started to growl every time at the exact same time.
The mood changed when both got into fighting stances, for today Bell wore Olympus and the Hestia Knife, on some other days it were just his knives. They didn´t only trained their physical compability, but also how to use their magic together.
Ais´ wind and Bell´s fire matched each other perfectly. The burning lightning from Olympus and the wind were also a good match. They even tried to let Ais use Olympus, but she always felt her hands sting when small lighting hit her fingers...as if Olympus was jealous to be touched by her...maybe because of it´s "sister", her sword "Hurricane".
But she had problems using the sword anyway, since "Hurricane" was formed differently, they still continued the training with weapons and magic. They never knew what could happen in the dungeon, there might be a time when Ais had to use Olympus. That these two trained together almost every day was as good as it was bad sometimes.
Due to Bell´s passive skill "Lover of the Wind", Ais got a share of his Excelia, and since he earned much more than others, she got a boost that was abnormal for her.
Ever since they had started with the skill, Ais´ status was mostly at 100...now her stats were all around 900. Bell´s status wasn´t much different and it took them over a year to come this far, Bell was all too happy that he grew slower but in exchange Ais grew faster. He had promised her to fight the black dragon one day...and that he wanted to be a hero...her hero.
Adventurers didn´t only earned Excelia from defeating monsters, but from fighting a strong enemy alone. So when Bell fought Ais with high intensity, he earned Excelia that way and due to the skill, she earned them too. Both got so into fighting together, that their Familias feared they would become battle maniacs...but thankfully it was only about doing it together.
One some days, Tiona and Tione joined them in a two versus two fight. And not only them, the Loki Familia was really interested in Bell´s growth and he had sparring fights with everyone there at level six...his hardest oppponent was still Riveria.
A status wasn´t everything in a fight, experience was another and Riveria had much experience. She managed to stand against Bell, using her staff to block his attacks. It was also since Bell would never fight at full strength against her, his nature forbid him to do that to such a beautiful woman...especially since she was Ais´ "Mom". Ais had told Bell while they cuddled in bed how much Riveria meant to her...that Riveria was the mother for Ais that was taken from her. It had happened to Bell in a training fight with Riveria...he had tripped over something and slammed into her, breaking her stance. Bell´s nature let him act before he could think, he closed his arms around Riveria and turned them around so that he would hit the ground first, saving her like that.
"Unf!"
"Kya!"
The sound that Riveria made was already something no one would be forgiven to hear...it sounded so...girly. And what was worse...their lips were only centimeters appart from each other...and Bell hugged her strongly, one hand on her back and the other dangerously close to her butt. For the first time he realized how womanly Riveria´s body was under her robe.
Riveria only squeaked more when she felt something hard pressing against her lower stomach...she couldn´t know the this was only Hakugen´s scabbard...
"Mmmmh!"
The elf on top of him blushed fiercly...even her ears got red.
"M-Ms. Riveria, are you okay?"
"Y-Yes...thank you."
The tiniest movement of their bodies were enough so that Bell´s leg was between Riveria´s, not touching something inappropriate, but Riveria was never before touched by a man like this.
Her hips twitched under the sudden touch. "Hyan!"
No one before had ever heard such a noise from the princess of all elves...
"Waah! Let lady Riveria go!" Alicia always watched the fight when Riveria was involved.
"Bell! You already have Ms. Ais!" And Lefiya did too...
They got up again and Riveria coughed one time to cover up her embarrassement. "G-Good reaction, Bell Cranel."
He didn´t knew it...but Riveria was close to call him just Bell again...until this incident happened.
"Bell! Mo-..Riveria! Are you hurt?" Ais came over, looking worried.
Bell could have sworn he saw Riveria´s ears...wriggle in joy...when Ais was about to call her "Mom". Their different races aside, Riveria and Ais really looked like mother and daughter together. Ais was also the only person that Riveria would ever bath with together...well and Aina, Eina´s mother, but she was a special someone for Riveria.
Riveria wasn´t the only one that had such accidents with Bell, when they fought against others...it happend to Tiona too...and Lefiya, those two somehow managed to fall in a way that Bell´s face landed under her skirt and her face in his crotch...however they managed to do that...one time Tione...and...even...Gareth.
"Oh my...y-young man...how daring..."
Bell managed to let the old dwarf blush...their bodies were pressed together and they sweat strongly from training. Getting "hugged" by a sweating dwarf wasn´t Bell´s favorite thing to happen...Ais would refuse to cuddle with him this night since he smelled like an old dwarf...
The climax finally happened when Finn landed in Bell´s arms, Tione got a strong nose bleed and fainted on the spot. Even some of the other girls...even the elves...blushed and squealed when they saw these two, handsome, young-looking man so closed to each other.
At this point, Riveria asked herself if Bell was really "lucky"...it didn´t looked like it.
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But one time in training, Bell and Ais went too far. One day the weather had turned bad, a heavy rain poured down on Orario, they just continued their fight, they were too excited about getting faster and faster.
Fighting in the rain was an interesting experience, their clothes got heavier, the stones slippery and the top of the walls looked almost isolated, due to the downpour they couldn´t see the city really good.
While they managed to not get hurt...they didn´t thought about something else.
"Kchoo!"
The next morning, Ais was in her bed with a red nose and was sneezing the whole time, she had caught a cold. Riveria had scolded her for her reckless behaviour...and except for the time when Bell came to visit his sick girlfriend, she sat next to Ais´ bed all the time. Riveria always watched over Ais when she was sick.
"Ais...I´m sorry." Bell looked depressed, feeling it was his fault that she got a cold.
"It idn´t your faubt." With her nose like that, she couldn´t talk right...but it sounded cute.
Bell showed his caring side and did everything for her when she was like that, wiping down her sweat, bringing her water and feeding her. Being sick wasn´t so bad after all for Ais Wallenstein.
"Ais...I have to go now, sleep well okay?"
He leaned closer to her.
"Bell...don´t...you catch my cold..."
"I don´t care..."
"Mmmh!"
Ais sighed happily when Bell kissed her...they didn´t did that for three days at this point, so it was a long, loving kiss.
But...
"Achoo!"
"See Bell? I told you so..."
Ais sat next to Bell´s bed, she had felt better the next morning, but now Bell was sick.
He smiled tiredly to her. "It was worth it..."
She smiled and took care of him like he did for her. The Hestia and Loki Familia had to cry because how cute these two were together and how much they cared for each other. But as they promised, both still spend much time with their Familias.
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Ais raised her left leg the tiniest bit and whirled suddenly around, her heel raced towards his face, Bell leaned backwards and evaded like that. Due to her raised leg he noticed that she wore her special short pants under the skirt of her battle dress, an advice from him in the past. Bell got his stance back and jumped up, using Olympus with both hands, he practiced often to draw the Hestia Knife in a moment when his opponent didn´t saw it.
Her leg hit the ground again and she swung her blade from the side, the colliding of the blades happened with a silvery ringing. Instead of wrestling their strength against the other, both jumped apart. Ais immediately jumped forward again and aimed a thrust at Bell´s chestplate, instead of blocking with his sword, Bell took the hit and slashed with Olympus from the side.
It was a reckless strategy but it was very efficient...against any opponent other than Ais. She knew this tactic because they had worked on it, every opponent would try to let him block the hit to do something when his blade was bound. But when Bell didn´t took the bait and did something to surprise the other one, he got the upper hand.
But Ais was used to that, so she jumped backwards.
"Firebolt!"
Bell fired his electrical firebolt into the ground and created a screen of dust this way. Ais was prepared when he dashed through the dust and slashed at her again, he made sure to use as little magic as possible or they would get yelled at again by the guards for damaging the wall.
Both used their full repertoire against each other, holding nothing back, but the fight got only better since they were fighting on the same level now. They had fought numerous times against each other so the fight would continue for a long time.
Ais suddenly got a tiny bit slower in her movement, Bell was about to turn himself around.
"Bell, wait!"
He immediately stopped, only tripping to the side since his momentum didn´t allowed a sudden stop.
"Ais?"
She didn´t answered, Ais looked over the walls and the city for a moment. A shiver ran over her body and she rubbed her sword arm with her free hand.
"It´s...chilly..."
"Ais? What´s wrong?"
"Bell, look!"
He followed her gaze and stopped short. The lands around Orario were covered in fog, that was nothing new this early in the morning, but it was far more fog than usual.
"I guess it get´s cold, we have autumn after all."
A light wind began to blow...and Ais started to frown.
"I don´t like this wind..."
"Ais?"
He could see how her eyes changed, as if she was sensing danger. The life in Orario was just about to start, it was still early morning. No one seemed to notice something. When Ais started to run to a tower, Bell followed her.
"Ais?! What is wrong?!"
"I have a bad feeling, hurry!"
They arrived shortly after on top of the tower, their eyes widened. More and more fog gathered around Orario in all directions...but it looked like it was coming out of the north-east, east from the Beol mountains. If a certain goddess would be high up in Babel at this moment, she would see that the lands all around Orario filled with fog.
It looked like a dream sequence, the land looked surreal and magical. As far as their eyes reached, only fog...then came the smell.
"What is this? It smells...sour?"
"I don´t like this...I don´t like this at all."
Bell saw Ais frowning, she was really sensitive when it came to wind...so something had to be wrong.
"There!"
The fog wasn´t as thick around the walls, they saw movement down there. People were running towards the north-eastern city gate.
"That´s the Demeter Familia, what are they doing?"
"Bell hurry!"
Ais jumped down from the tower onto the wall, followed by Bell. Both felt strange, their senses were in high alert...as if a battle was approaching. She missed a step when the ground shoke for a moment, Bell grabbed her arm to support her, they only ran faster.
The Demeter Familia ran through the gate that got closed behind them, all around Orario the gates closed with a thundering echo. All citizens that heard this looked up, the gates didn´t got closed this early in the morning...except something happened.
Both ran towards the part of the walls that was the closest to the streaming fog.
The noises started.
A strange...howl...echoed over the lands. It sounded strange...like it was coming in waves...maybe due to the fog. They arrived on top of the walls and looked outside, the land suddenly became deathly silent...they saw birds rising in the north...as if something on ground was scaring them away. A few birds flew up and fell back down...they didn´t saw why, they just stopped flapping their wings and fell.
Not one animal could be heard outside, the fog didn´t entered Orario...but the land turned more and more white...this fog was clearly unnatural.
"What is this?!"
Bell leaned forward...in the north something happened with the fog. It was from a clear white...but he saw threads of blackness emerge in the mist. The blackness spreaded more and more, moving slowly towards the city.
They startled when suddenly the enormous alarm sirens at Babel started to howl, someone inside the titanic tower saw the blackness in the fog and decided that was something dangerous. Every citizen that was still inside their beds got waked up by this howl, most of them in fear.
In the Hestia Mansion, Cassandra woke up screaming in fear.
"It´s starting! It´s starting! It´s coming! HE is coming!"
"Cassandra?! What are you talking about?!"
"Daphne IT`S COMING!"
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The wave of blackness consumed more and more of the white mist...the strange smell got stronger and stronger. Every citizen that woke up from the howling of the sirens clothed themself as fast as possible and ran towards Babel...with the exception of a silver haired girl with grey eyes who ran towards an orphanage that she wanted to visit this morning...an orphanage that was close to the northern walls...
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The chilly feeling got stronger...then the mist started to move.
"Bell look there! What...what is this?"
It wasn´t the mist that was moving...but something inside. Now that whatever it was got closer, they saw movement in front of the blackness and inside...as if something moved in that stuff. The movment kicked up the fog ... it looked like a torpedo pulling through the water ... just slower. They couldn´t see it but they heard every tower around Orario activating their alarm sirens, the blackness appeared in every direction around Orario now.
The closer it got, the more movements they saw...but not what moved.
"The-..."
Ais stopped when what she saw vanished, not sure what it was. Suddenly the movement of the blackness increased alot...it rushed towards the city gates, it looked like the blackness spread from different spots in the mist...that strange howling appeared again.
A guard yelled something from a nearby tower.
"PREPARE FOR IMPACT!"
Bell and Ais grabbed the parapet in front of them when the wave of blackness crashed into the city walls...and nothing happened.
"Hu-!"
Bell staggered to the side when the whole wall started to shake with a loud crash...as if something now crashed into the wall down there.
"WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!"
The guards from the Ganesha Familia ran to the walls but they couldn´t see anything and no one was dumb enough to jump down or open the gates again. Crashes filled the air around Orario, the gates were getting rammed by something.
A second heavy crash shook the wall below them...then Ais noticed an enormous wave washing through the mist...directly pointed at the spot below them.
"Bell, run!"
They ran as fast as they could.
"GET AWAY FROM THE WALL!"
Bell screamed on the top of his lunges...and his heart stopped when he saw a movement in the streets below him. A silver haired girl ran towards a familiar church...
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Leaves on the ground where whirled up by a gust of wind...clouds drifted over the sky with great speed...
A few people turned around when they heard the crash to see what happened...
The silver haired girl ran in fear towards the church...not fear for herself...but for the children and the woman inside that she cared so much about...
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The winds died out immediately...the clouds above the city stopped...
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The wall exploded.
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Right before it happened, Ais caught the glimpse of an enormous horned head...then it crashed into the wall. The walls that surrounded Orario where over five meters thick...
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The sudden explosion launched the bricks and stones that were part of the wall into the air, the sudden gust of wind demolished countless houses. Debris flew through the air and crashed down on houses...and people.
Dust and wind washed through the hole that appeared in the wall, more and more debris fell down again from the sky. A titanic ray of light shot upwards when a god got smashed by a stone as big as a small house...
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"DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!"
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Explosions of wood appeared all over Orario as something smashed through every gate at once...but not one of them as big as the one in the wall.
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Bell and Ais stumbled to the edge of the wall...their mouths opened in shock. The area around the wall was a wasteland...all houses in fifty meters around the wall leveled. A titanic roar filled the air...a gust of wind blew the dust away for a second.
It appeared...
Covered in scales from head to the tip of the long tail...two enormous curled horns on the head...four giant legs that ended in claws. A head that looked like the one from a dragon...with four, red glowing eyes.
And it was completely black, except for the white horns.
Over five meters tall...had it rammed right through the wall and now it roared to declare it´s absolute dominance.
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Orario got attacked by an army of black monsters that rushed through the holes they had created.
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And like it was a wonder...a lone silver-haired girl wasn´t hit by anthing...and now backed away screaming...when the giant monster layed his eyes on her.
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"SYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYR!"
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Authors Note2: Also there will be a few changes in both stories, I will mostly stop the Ero version of "Blood of Zeus", but instead put light love scenes in the real story, each marked for those who don´t want to read it, so it feels more natural like a real story.
Also later there will be a small love scene in this story again, maybe two, but no real lemon, written really soft and with not much detail, more like just writing what they are doing there.
Some things that appear in this story are with an inspiration from Danmemo as some of you noticed, but I will write my own versions of it and not just copy things from the game.
I will say as much, I have never worked longer on a chapter than the finale of this Ark, which will take a while.